Italian Art for Travelers
Your passport to culture, history, and art

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2000 Years of Roman History, Part Four: Two Popes

Approximately six million people visit the Sistine Ceiling and Vatican Museums each year. Who made these treasures possible? Two popes from

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To All the Artists I've Loved Before

How Vincent van Gogh and a Roman Missal led me to study art history. From the graceful ornate elegance of the 1400s, to the classic figural

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Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer Part II

As I left the exhibit at the Met, a little overwhelmed, and took a taxi back to the hotel, my thoughts turned to three questions...

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Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer Part I

Michelangelo was active as an artist for some seventy years and the exhibit brought together works from his earliest teenage years to drawin

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Entrepreneurial Best Practices from Michelangelo and Leonardo

Art is a business The making and selling of art may not be the world’s oldest profession, but it has been a commercial endeavor for...

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Art Battles: Michelangelo vs. Leonardo, Raphael and Titian

Four Renaissance masters. Individually they were artistic geniuses. Collectively their bodies of work are considered the epitome of the...

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First Thoughts to Cartoons: Italian Renaissance Drawing

The Italian language is expressive and the terms used to describe art are evocative and just fun to say out loud. Terms like chiaroscuro...

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What is the Italian Renaissance?

The Renaissance is a historical period with rough dates of about 1350-1600. It is not just an artistic style. As the name implies, it was...